When historians write their versions of Donald Trump’s extraordinary ascent to the Presidency, prominence will surely be given to the former Director of the FBI James Comey.
He was a Republican hired by a Democratic President, whose handling of two key investigations; into Hillary Clinton’s emails and allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, polarized America.
His recent memoir was a withering condemnation of the man who fired him, President Trump.
But has James Comey sullied his own reputation by stepping into America’s political swamp?